The Association of Health Literacy with High-Quality Home Blood Pressure Monitoring for Hypertensive Patients in Outpatient Settings by Sau Nga Fu, Man Chi Dao, Carlos King Ho Wong, Bernard Man Yung Cheung

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Fates of nutrient elements and heavy metals during thermal conversion of cattle slurry-derived anaerobic digestates by Daniel J. Lane, Olli Sippula, Jorma Jokiniemi, Mikko Heimonen, Niko M. Kinnunen, Perttu Virkajärvi, Narasinha Shurpali

“…The partitioning of elements between condensed and gaseous phases was quantified by mass balances based on elemental analyses of char and ash residues. The char and ash residues were prepared in a fixed-bed, batch reactor at temperatures within the range 800–1000 °C. …”
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The PDC30 Chatbot—Development of a Psychoeducational Resource on Dementia Caregiving Among Family Caregivers: Mixed Methods Acceptability Study by Sheung-Tak Cheng, Peter H F Ng

“… BackgroundProviding ongoing support to the increasing number of caregivers as their needs change in the long-term course of dementia is a severe challenge to any health care system. …”
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Centro de Orientación Psicosocial Educativo como estrategia de retención y permanencia by Juan Guillermo Macías Sánchez, Diana Milena Vargas Rodríguez

“…Introducción: En el Centro Comunitario de Atención Virtual (CCAV) de Facatativá de la Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia (UNAD), se han identificado estudiantes con dificultades en su proceso académico, reflejado en bajo promedio histórico, pérdida repetitiva de cursos y larga permanencia en la institución con poco avance en sus estudios, lo cual ha dificultado la finalización de su formación profesional. …”
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Occupational disparities in survival in Korean women with cancer: a nationwide registry linkage study by Ichiro Kawachi, Hye-Eun Lee, Eun-A KIM, Masayoshi Zaitsu

“…HRs for mortality adjusting for age and year of diagnosis were calculated in the study sample and subgroups with 10 specific cancer sites including thyroid, breast, stomach, cervix, colon or lung cancer using managers, professionals and technical workers as the reference.Results Women in service/sales (HR 1.25, 95% CI 1.15 to 1.35) and blue-collar occupations (HR 1.34, 95% CI 1.25 to 1.44) had poorer survival for all cancer sites combined, while blue-collar workers showed poorer survival for lung (HR 1.41, 95% CI 1.14 to 1.77), breast (HR 1.28, 95% CI 1.06 to 1.54), cervical cancer (HR 1.42, 95% CI 1.02 to 2.06) and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HR 1.69, 95% CI 1.09 to 2.77) compared with women in professional and managerial positions.Conclusion We found substantial and significant inequalities in overall survival by the occupational group among Korean women with cancer, even in the context of universal access to cancer screening and treatment.…”
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A Lightweight CNN-Transformer Implemented via Structural Re-Parameterization and Hybrid Attention for Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution by Jie Wang, Hongwei Li, Yifan Li, Zilong Qin

“…While transformer methods are capable of learning long-distance dependencies, they often overlook local feature details, which can diminish the discriminability between the background and the foreground. …”
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Perspectives on AI-based recommendations for mask-wearing and COVID-19 vaccination for transplant recipients in the post-COVID-19 era by Oscar A. Garcia Valencia, Charat Thongprayoon, Jing Miao, Jackrapong Bruminhent, Iasmina M. Craici, Wisit Cheungpasitporn

“…Our findings reveal that ChatGPT 4.0 consistently recommends mask-wearing in crowded and indoor environments for transplant recipients, underscoring their elevated risk. …”
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Parent Training Pamphlets: An Intervention Study Among Parents at Child Health Checkups by Kazuko Akutsu, Aya Goto, Fareeda Abo-Rass, Hiroyuki Yokoyama

“…Subgroup analyses revealed significant differences in adherence among parents whose children were identified to have developmental concerns at the 1.5-year health checkup and were required to have follow-up checkups, specifically in the “avoid immediate reactions” approach between intervention and control groups. …”
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Pyrolysis and Dioxin Production Characteristics of Mineralized Waste in Landfills by Jian-Ying Fu, Han-Cheng Ma, Wen-Tao Jiao, Xu Xu, Xiao-Qing Lin, Xiao-Dong Li, Ming-Xiu Zhan

“…Abstract Compared with original municipal solid waste (MSW), mineralized waste (MW) has a lower moisture content, higher calorific value, and better energy utilization potential. …”
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中华穿山甲腹泻治疗前后粪便微生物群落组成的差异 by 颉志刚 毛 韵 谢纯刚 许 佳 何海健 蒙海峰 郑荣泉

“…治疗后粪便细菌OTU总数和丰度指数(ACE和Chao 1)均降低,而真菌OTU总数和Chao 1指数增加,但细菌和真菌Alpha多样性指数在治疗前后变化不大。…”
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Association between triglyceride glucose index and adverse cardiovascular prognosis in patients with atrial fibrillation without diabetes: a retrospective cohort study by Aobo Gong, Ying Cao, Zexi Li, Wentao Li, Fanghui Li, Yao Tong, Xianjin Hu, Rui Zeng

“…Triglyceride glucose index (Tyg), a convenient evaluation variable for insulin resistance, has shown associations with adverse cardiovascular outcomes. …”
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Bébédjia (sud du Tchad), un espace sous pression by Lieugomg Médard, Sama Ozias

“…Bebedjia, situated in the southernmost part of Chad, has a favourable climate conduisive to agro-pastoral activities. …”
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A configuração da informalidade nas margens do Estado: O comércio em favelas com UPP. by Daniel Soares Rumbelsperger Rodrigues

“… Adotando a chave analítica de Cardoso (2010, 2013, 2014) para abordar a temática da informalidade no mercado de trabalho brasileiro e a perspectiva teórica de Das e Poole (2004) para tratar das favelas cariocas enquanto margens do Estado nacional, o artigo analisa a trajetória de um comerciante cujo estabelecimento se localiza numa área “pacificada” da cidade do Rio de Janeiro. …”
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Color Image Landscape Photo Hand-Painted Effect Evaluation with PFA Algorithm by Shizhang Liu

“…The simulation results show that the PFA algorithm is effective and can support the evaluation of the hand-painted effect of color landscape photos.…”
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Internet application Mozilla localization and using in teaching by Gintautas Grigas, Tatjana Jevsikova

“…The reasons to discuss this topic are following: 1) the programs' suite was localized (menu, dialog boxes and other strings and documentation are translated and the program is adapted for its proper matching to Lithuanian environment); 2) using one Mozilla package for teaching Intemet topics instead of separated Inter­net applications (web browser, HTML composer, e-mail and chat clients) has many advantages. The new features, added into Mozilla during its localization, are described, farther improvement possibilities are evaluated and a short curriculum is presented. …”
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Knowledge Management in International Strategic Alliances: Developing Modified Capability for Existing Knowledge in Knowledge Adaptation by Chien-ju LEE

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Genome Resequencing of the Honeybee Apis mellifera jemenetica (Hymenoptera: Apidae): A Key Tool towards Characterization, Conservation, and Genomic Selection by Ahmad Alghamdi, Yehya Alattal

“…Generated sequence reads were mapped to the reference honeybee Apis mellifera genome (Amel_HAv3.1). Data revealed genome-wide patterns of genetic variation which can be useful in the characterization and assessment of positive selection of the Arabian honeybee using different genetic markers. …”
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Solitary Wave Solutions of Conformable Time Fractional Equations Using Modified Simplest Equation Method by Waseem Razzaq, Mustafa Habib, Muhammad Nadeem, Asim Zafar, Ilyas Khan, Patrick Kandege Mwanakatwea

“…This study presents a modified simplest equation method (MSEM) to investigate some real and exact solutions of conformable time fractional Benjamin-Bona-Mahony (BBM) equation and Chan-Hilliard (CH) equation. We use traveling wave transformation to obtain the results in the form of series solution. …”
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